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2671. Or 7793

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7793
Title:
Nuzhat al-nāẓirīn fī al-akhbār wa-al-āthār al-marwīyah ʻan al-anbiyāʼ wa-al-ṣāliḥīn نزهة الناظرين في الأخبار والآثار المروية عن الأنبياء والصالحين Ibn al-Muná al-Bābī, ʻAbd al-Malik ibn ʻAlī ابن المنى البابي، عبد الملك بن علي
Scope & Content:
Encyclopaedia on ethics based on traditions of the pre-Islamic prophets by Taqī al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Abī al-Muná al-Bābī al-Ḥalabī al-Ḍarīr (تقي الدين عبد الملك بن أبي المنى البابي الحلبي الضرير, d. 1435), known as ʻUbayd (عبيد), imām, preacher (خطيب) and teacher at the Ummayad Mosque in A...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+266+i

2672. Or 7978

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7978
Title:
Kawkab al-rawḍah كوكب الروضة Suyūṭī سيوطي
Scope & Content:
A compendium of history and description regarding the island of al-Rawḍah in Cairo, in prose and verse, completed in Jumādá II 895/April-May 1490 (see f. 203v, lines 5-6) by Jalāl al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr al-Suyūṭī (جلال الدين عبد الرحمن بن أبي بكرالسيوطي, d. 1505). The present copy w...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
16 Muḥarram 1009
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+203+i

2673. Or 8086

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8086
Title:
Three nautical handbooks
Scope & Content:
Three handbooks containing a mixture of tables, geographical coordinates, and short texts on astronomy, calculations, wayfinding, and instruments useful for navigation in the Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf, and Red Sea, bound into one volume. The colophon to the second text provides th...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
2 Jumādá II 1287
Extent:
Codex; ff. i+104+iii+2+ii

2674. Or 8086, ff 1r-50v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8086, ff 1r-50v
Title:
Nautical directory
Scope & Content:
Anonymous nautical directory containing sets of tables used for the calculation of latitudes and distances, and a gazetteer of ports on the Persian Gulf coasts, Arabian Peninsula, East Africa, Iran, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, and Indian Ocean island groups. The tables are occasionally decorate...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
ca 1870
Extent:
Ff. 1r-50v

2675. Or 8086, ff 51r-76v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8086, ff 51r-76v
Title:
Compilation of technical and practical advice for navigators
Scope & Content:
A compilation of technical and practical advice for navigators, attributed to the 'wise men of the sea' (علماء البحر), and completed by an un-named scribe on 2 Jumādá II 1287/30 August 1870 (see colophon, f. 76r, transcribed below). The first half of the work (ff. 51r-59v) is divided into an in...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
2 Jumādá II 1287
Extent:
Ff. 51r-76v

2676. Or 8086, ff 77v-106r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8086, ff 77v-106r
Title:
Didactic manual of nautical and navigational practices
Scope & Content:
A teaching manual transmitted from an anonymous author (المؤلف) on navigational practices and nautical information, interspersed with poems. Following an introductory sermon (خطبة), the first part of the work contains numerous sections (أبواب) on theoretical astronomy and observation (understan...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
ca 1870
Extent:
Ff. 77v-106r

2677. Or 8122

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8122
Title:
Sharḥ kullīyāt al-qānūn شرح كليات القانون Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Masʿūd قطب الدين الشيرازي، محمود بن مسعود
Scope & Content:
Volume four (المجلد الرابع) of a commentary by Quṭb al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Mas‘ūd al-Shīrāzī (قطب الدين محمود بن مسعود الشيرازي; d. 1310) on the Colliget (كتاب الكلية), the first book of the Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطب) by Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, d. 1037). This commentary is also known as The Sa‘d...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
28 Shawwāl 715
Extent:

Codex; ff. 162

2678. Or 8187

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8187
Title:
Kitāb al-bayzarah كتاب البيزرة
Scope & Content:
Treatise on falconry focussing on the health and treatment of birds of prey by an unnamed author. The title appears on the title page (f. 3r) asكتاب البيزرة صنّفه الحكماء المتقدمين للملك الاسكندري (!) الرومي وهو كتاب عجيب مما يصلح بالملوك إذ لا بدّ لكلّ ملك من مسيره إلى الصيد بإحدى هذه الطيور ال...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
12 Jumādá II 1201
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+152+i

2679. Or 8229

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8229
Title:
Six alchemical texts Ṭughrāʼī, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī طغرائي، الحسين بن علي
Scope & Content:
Collection of alchemical texts by the Seljuq chancellor (صاحب ديوان الإنشاء) and vizier, poet and alchemist Muʼayyad al-Dīn Abū Ismāʻīl al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī al-Ṭughrāʼī (مؤيد الدين أبو إسماعيل الحسين بن علي الطغرائي, d. 1121). The copy was produced by Darwīsh ʻAlī ibn Shams al-Dīn al-Kāẓimī (دروي...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1091
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+200+i

2680. Or 8229, ff 1v and 5r-12v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8229, ff 1v and 5r-12v
Title:
al-Juzʼ al-thānī min Kitāb jāmiʻ al-asrār الجزء الثاني من كتاب جامع الأسرار Ṭughrāʼī, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī طغرائي، الحسين بن علي
Scope & Content:
Incomplete copy of Part Two (الجزء الثاني) of a defense of alchemy against an unnamed detractor by the Seljuq chancellor (صاحب ديوان الإنشاء) and vizier, poet and alchemist Muʼayyad al-Dīn Abū Ismāʻīl al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī al-Ṭughrāʼī (مؤيد الدين أبو إسماعيل الحسين بن علي الطغرائي, d. 1121). The c...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1091
Extent:

Ff. 1v and 5r-12v

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